Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

I had worked hard my entire career to establish myself as a leader. But I wasn't a leader until I was perceived as one.

Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.

The influence of the leaders is due in very small measure to the arguments they employ, but in a large degree to their prestige. The best proof of this is that, should they by any circumstance lose their prestige, their influence disappears.

The power of recognition gives you the power to set the agenda.

It's great to be queen!

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

I'm a King. Regardless of what I've been through and what I've done, I present myself as a King. And I get that respect from people, from everybody I deal with. I worked my whole life to establish that respect and make sure I get that respect.

With a suit, even if you're having a nervous breakdown, you still look like you're in charge.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain't no king, man.

Of all forms of prestige, moral prestige is the most valuable, and no statesman should forget that one of the chief elements of British power is the moral weight that is behind it.

A seat in the council is honor without profit.

On the most exalted throne in the world, we are still seated on nothing but our arse.

Where Macgregor sits, there is the head of the table.

To make sense of bossiness, we need to tease apart two fundamental aspects of social hierarchy that are often lumped together: power and status. Power lies in holding a formal position of authority or controlling important resources. Status involves being respected or admired.

As soon as a regular guy like Bill Clinton becomes the president, he wears a mantle of greatness. He's the president.

The thing with crowns is, it isn't the putting them on that's the problem, it's the taking them off.

The higher our position the more modestly we should behave.

Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.

A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.

Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tire-women, mechanically influence the mind into veneration; an emperor in his nightcap would not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.

Closeness to power heightens the dignity of all men.

No one who wears a crown is ever safe.